In memory of Kent State

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by mortimerdexterfoxworthy

I'm trying.



It still isn't good enough???

I meant your story was sad...as in heartbreaking to think about the agony of that family...for what even...

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by paisjpq

I meant your story was sad...as in heartbreaking to think about the agony of that family...for what even...

Oh..I see.




That was very kind of you.

[Mortimer]

And if you ever go there it is amazing to see how close everyone was to each other.I forgot any measures given,but it is surprising to see how compact this area was.


There is a Pagoda,I think it's called that, at the top of the hill and one of the metal squares still had a claimed bullet hole in it.

I say claimed because the guardsman say they were shot at first and this thing is just down and to the left of where they were.

[Grits]

When one thinks about the shootings at Kent State it seems so very very long ago. In another time. That act was so astonishing, so piercing to a nation.

Today, not anything seems truly safe, and no one is totally protected from becoming a victim of an act of violence. Not anyone, not anywhere.

As a nation, as a world, we have gone so far.